Display support



May 5, 1953 J. PINE 2,637,444

DISPLAY SUPPORT Filed Feb. 14, 1950 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 fi n92,

INVENTOR Ju/u/s P/ne ATTORN EY J. PINE DISPLAY SUPPORT May 5, 1953 2SHEETS-SHEET 2 Filed Feb. 14, 1950 INVENTOR Ju/ius PM)? Y E N R O T T APatented May 5, 1953 DISPLAY SUPPORT Julius Pine, Brooklyn, N. Y.,assignor to Sedgwick Furniture Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation ofNew York Application February 14, 1950, Serial No. 144,130

2 Claims. (01. 211-27) This invention relates to display assemblies andto supports for use therein, and finds application in the display ofheadboards for beds, footboards for beds, and articles of like nature.

In the display of such articles I have found that space can be saved anda particularly effective display obtained by arranging, the articles oneabove and slightly behind the other. For this purpose it is importantthat there be provided a simple, strong, and permanent display supportwhich will effectively and securely mount the articles inadvantageously-displayed arrangement, and which will itself be sightlybut which will interfere with the display to the smallest possibleextent. It is also important in many instances that the display supportbe readily collapsible into a compact unit for shipping, fortransportation from one point to another in a store, or for storage whennot in use.

With the foregoing and other considerations in view, the presentinvention contemplates the provision of a form of display supportcomprising a rearwardly inclined metal bar, or like member, supported bya standard or bracing arm in the form, for example, of a metal bar, andcarrying generally-vertical mounting plates spaced therealong. Invarious of its more specific aspects it contemplates the provision ofconnected arms one of which extends a less distance from its pivot pointthan the other, so that the former will stand more nearly upright; theprovision of a narrow elongated base in the form, for example, of ametal bar; the provision of pivotal and releasable connections betweenthe arms and between the arms and the base to permit the collapse of thesupport; the provision of mounting plates which comprise one wing ofangle irons and which are welded or otherwise secured to the support;the provision of at least one mounting plate above the point ofconnection of the displaying arms; and the provision offastener-receiving openings in the support. The invention alsocontemplates the provision of display assemblies wherein a pair ofdisplay supports are united by display elements, and, in certain of itsmore specific aspects, the provision of display elements having legsand/or fastener-receiving openings adapted to be alined with themounting plates and/or with fastener-receiving openings therein.

The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction,combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts, which will beexemplified in the constructions hereinafter set forth and the scope ofthe application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention,reference should be had to the following detailed description takenFigure 1 is a front View of a display assembly embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the display supports;

Fig. 4 is a front view thereof;

Fig. 5 is a front view of the other display support; and

Fig. 6 shows a support in collapsed condition.

The display assembly exemplified comprises a pair of display supports I0and II and a plurality of display elements I2, in the form, in thepresent instance, of headboards of beds, each having legs I withfastener-receiving means in the form of one or more holes I5 therein(two holes in the present instance). The display supports carry,respectively, at spaced intervals alined, generally vertical mountingplates I! which, as exemplified, extend outwardly of the assembly topermit the display elements to be secured thereto with particular ease,and each of which has fastener-receiving means in the form of two holesI8 in the present instance. A pair of bolts 20 serve to fasten each legto a plate l1.

Each of the exemplified supports I0 and H comprises a base 22, asupporting arm 23, and a standard 24 in the form of an arm terminatingshort of the top of the supporting arm in the present instance. Asexemplified each of these elements is in the form of a metallic bar. Thesupporting arm 23 extends obliquely upwardly to the rear, forming anacute angle with the arm 24, which, as exemplified, is inclined slightlyforwardly.

Each of the plates l'l constitutes one wing of a short angle iron 25,the other wing 26 of which i welded, as at 27, or otherwise secured to asupporting arm 23, the plates I! on the right-hand arm (Fig. 1)extending to the right and the plates ll on the left-hand arm extendingto the left.

In accordance with the invention in certain of its more specificaspects. the supports l0 and H are collapsibly formed, the standard 24being pivotally secured to the base 22 at 30 and to the supporting arm23 at 3|, and the supporting arm being secured to the base by a bolt 32and a. removable nut 33. Upon removal of the nut 33 and with thewithdrawal of the bolt 32, a support may be collapsed and folded into acompact unit for easy movement or storage, as shown in Fig. 6.

Since certain changes may be made in carrying out thefabovemiethodwithoutdep rtingirqm the scope 'Qf the invention, it is intended thatall matter contained in the above description shall be interpreted asillustrative and not in @8- limiting sense.

I claim:

1. A display assembly comprisingapairnf 615D- ports having inclinedfaces, a paireof standards therefor, and a plurality of lugs atsimilarly alined spaced points on said supports and extending ingenerally vertical "planes out from the sides of said standards, saidlugs being-;adapted by alining in pairs tol support display elementseach having a'paircf lees tube securedtolanair \Qfflugs.

2. A display assemblycomprising a pair ofsuprports having inclinedfaces, .a plurality of lugs at similarly-aimed spaced points on saidsupports and extending .in generally vertical ,planes ut from the sides[of the standards, display elements 4 having legs alined. with pairs ofsaid lugs, and a fastener securing each leg to a lug.

JULIUS PINE.

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:Cmi t Dat 17351360 France ,July- 22, 1935

